Phable

About

Phable is a modern Python toolkit for working with Project Haystack tagged data, Xeto specs, and Haxall. It provides a simple, Pythonic interface for building automation systems, charging station management systems, and other energy management applications that use Project Haystack semantic data models.

Open source and free - Phable is permissively licensed under the MIT license.

Core Capabilities

Data Types & Serialization

• Full support for Project Haystack kinds (data types)
• Serialize between Python objects and Zinc or JSON formats
• Native Python representations for working with semantic data

Project Haystack Client

• Read site, equip, and point entities
• Read current values of real-time data points
• Supervisory control of real-time data points
• Read and write history data for data points

Haxall Client

• All Project Haystack client features
• Add, update, and remove operations (commit API)
• Evaluate Axon expressions directly from Python

Xeto

• Type checking and validation of Haystack records against Xeto specifications via Haxall's CLI

Installation

Phable requires Python 3.11 or higher. Install from PyPI:

$ pip install phable

Time zone support: Phable uses the zoneinfo module for IANA time zone support. On systems without time zone data, you'll need to install tzdata:

$ pip install tzdata

Optional dependencies: For DataFrame support, install with your preferred library:

$ pip install "phable[pandas,pyarrow]"  # For pandas support
$ pip install "phable[polars]"          # For polars support

Breaking Changes

The early focus of this project is to find the best practices for using modern Python with a Haystack server. This may lead to breaking changes in newer Phable versions. After there has been sufficient experience with Phable, we plan to release a stable version 1.0.0.

Learn More

Phable's official website located here has additional documentation and examples for Phable's API.